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No need to apologize -- these mirrored pattern are confusing, and many of these Emanuel Berank designs do look so similar to each other...I showed a blue and green vase last week, which I assumed is the Emanuel Beranek PN 5987 (although a little different to the drawing in the book as well regarding the position of the hole)

Not all green 50s Skrdlovice contain uranium. I've got an Emanuel Beranek vase from 1954 in the same wonderful green-cased-in-amethyst colourway as the one I posted above, but it doesn't have one hint of a glow. I've also got a bluish-green vase by Rudolf Beranek from 1955 with no uranium.

The find last week at a very big Belgian antiques and collectibles market in Brugge. 5 km of market - and only 3 or 4 czech pieces, two of which I bought (I already had the other two). One was a nice prunted Rhapsody Mstisov basket (10 euro, couldn't leave it for that price). On to the true find.

The owner was trying to interest me in a few huge Val St. Lambert vases that were attractive, but very expensive (and I don't collect Belgian glass). And then I noticed he had this one lying around on the floor. "Oh, that one. Don't know what it is. You can have it for 25 euro." Needless to say I rescued this nice Skrdlovice vase by Frantisek Vizner in azure, pattern 6855. It even has a gold Bohemia label, so unlike my 6860, it's probably period manufacture.